We have hot water in the house!

     7:13 am - Friday - April 18th - TWW - 44° F, humidity 59%, wind 9 mph out of the southwest.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 54° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were walking around the National Mall in Washington D.C.....

Smithsonian

Lincoln Memorial - Up Close↗ and from a distance↙

The Washington Memorial was having work done

Capitol Building

....one of our favorite places to 'visit'.

It was too windy to do any painting (Charles brought us 2 more gallons of the paint to finish off the lower parts of the greenhouse), so we began our day digging two more post holes.  One hole was difficult to dig because of the caliche rock, but the second hole had very little caliche.  Later in the ay we set 3 of the 4" x 4" x 10' poles in concrete.  Two of those poles will have gates hung on them.  Once the gates are hung (Friday) we can set the remaining two posts in concrete the proper distance from the gates....

Two of the corner posts

The glass door to the greenhouse has never shut properly so I used an oscillating cutting tool to trim the wood on the threshold so it would shut flush with the frame and threshold.  With TLE's help, and advice it took about an hour to get it trimmed so the door closed and opened without rubbing on the wood threshold....

....as you will recall Matt was here Wednesday to fix a few leaks in the pump room.  He asked us to wait 24 hours before pressurizing the system.  Unfortunately, when we pressurized it late Thursday morning there was still one leak.....DOH!  Since Matt was back in Phoenix Charles and I decided to attempt to fix the remaining leak ourselves.  It took us a while, but utilizing two 75+ year old brains we got it done, and now the plumbing system is pressurized, and for the first time in years, there is HOT water in the house!  YAY!  Phyllis can now use her new dishwasher!

Since we are leaving I spent time pouring STA-BIL into the fuel tanks of the Champion Generator, the 1969 Chevrolet C-50 truck, the Jeep CJ-5, the Honda EU2000i, as well as the fuel containers.  I don't need to pour any STA-BIL into the Predator 5000 dual fuel generator as we've been running it off propane all winter.  The one time I used gasoline I let it run out of gas, so there is no gas in the system.  That's one of the benefits of a propane generator.  On Saturday we'll remove the battery from the Jeep and hook it up to a battery maintainer along with the two large 8d batteries I removed from the Newell house battery bay, and the small battery we use to pump water from our IBC water tote.  Charles will start the truck and run it around the property once a month while we're gone.

TLE prepared Chicken Alfredo for dinner, and it is possible, it is her finest effort to date.....

.....we sat down to eat around 3:45 pm, and were we ever tired!  After dinner I went home an took a hot shower, then took a 45 minute nap.  Once I had the nap I began to revive.  

On Friday we'll hang those new gates, and begin to install the new 6' welded wire fencing around the greenhouse.  Friday will be our last official workday here at TWW.  We'll spend Saturday taking down our site, and hooking the Newell up to the trailer for our Sunday departure.  That will be a long, tiring day for sure.

Thanks for stopping by!